Accessing the Alexandria Digital Library from geographic information systems

Author

Ancona, Dan ; Frew, Jim ; Janée, Greg ; Valentine, Dave

Author_Institution

Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype, California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 June 2004

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

75

Abstract

We describe two experimental desktop library clients that offer improved access to geospatial data via the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL): ArcADL, an extension to ESRI´s ArcView GIS, and vtADL, an extension to the Virtual Terrain Project´s Enviro terrain visualization package. ArcADL provides a simplified user interface to ADL´s powerful underlying distributed geospatial search technology. Both clients use the ADL Access Framework to access library data that is available in multiple formats and retrievable by multiple methods. Issues common to both clients and future scenarios are also considered.

Keywords

data visualisation; digital libraries; geographic information systems; information retrieval; visual databases; Alexandria Digital Library; ArcADL; Virtual Terrain Project; desktop library; geographic information system; geospatial data; geospatial search technology; Data visualization; Geographic Information Systems; Information retrieval; Information systems; Middleware; Packaging; Software libraries; Software tools; Standardization; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-58113-832-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336101

Filename

1336101